Within my practice I seek to test the thresholds for what may or may not be considered a meaningful image or signifying form. In particular I seek to challenge how an image may be regarded as static and self contained, a form that holds a meaning that emerges pure-ly from its visual qualities. Using materials such as acrylic and house paint, wall putty and billposters sourced from the street, I utilise the processes of building up layers of different surfaces upon a support surface before stripping these back in order to generate a set of constructs to allow for ambiguous visual possibilities to appear. A dichotomy, sometimes playful, other times fraught, is presented within each artwork, existing between the mate-rial processes and their surface appearances.
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